F.E.R.A. Projects

Approximately 130 Dartmouth undergraduates have been employed on the F.E.R.A. since October, it was announced recently by Prof. F. J. A. Neef, director of personnel research. The average earnings per student during the past month amounted to about $lO, with quite a number of men earning the maximum of $2O and a few earning only $4 on jobs that were less heavy. The F.E.R.A. jobs are expected to continue until at least the first of June.

All projects have been carefully investigated by Professor Neef's office, and approval has been granted only to those undertakings which have been considered worth-while. Similar care has been exercised in awarding jobs to students who need financial assistance and who are qualified to carry out certain projects. Reports from the supervisors of F.E.R.A. work have all been laudatory.

Some 55 different F.E.R.A. projects are under way at present, and bibliographies are being compiled in 19 different fields. All the projects are those which would have been undertaken before had funds been available for the work. Among the projects are those on the maintenance and development of the College plant under the direction of the Department of Grounds and Buildings, the classifying and rearranging of the Thayer School museum, the manufacture and painting of laboratory apparatus in the Thayer School, the cardindexing of The Dartmouth from the very beginning under the direction of the library, a study of intestinal parasites in the freshman class under the direction of Mr. Connell of the Department of Biology, the oiling of bindings of leather-bound books in Baker Library, the cataloguing and mounting of specimens in Wilson Museum, similar work for the Department of Biology, the preparation of charts of business statistics for the Tuck School, a physiological comparison of Dartmouth students of the different decades for the Department of Physical Education, a survey of electric rates for the Department of Economics, the translation of a Portugese textbook for the Department of Biology, research on unemployment insurance for the Tuck School, a statistical research for the office of the Dean of the College, the sorting and binding of miscellaneous maps for the Department of Geology, the cataloguing and labeling of specimens in the Clement Greenhouse, and the construction of maps showing the sociological changes in the population of Grafton County since 1900.